Han Yik serves as senior advisor to the Executive Director and CIO, Thomas Lee on regulatory, public policy, global initiatives and corporate governance issues. Yik also leads NYSTRS’ initiatives on investor stewardship and sustainability, including environmental, social and governance issues.

Yik joins NYSTRS from Strategic Focus Investments, where he was a managing partner for more than a year and managed investments across multiple asset classes, such as venture capital, publicly traded options and digital assets. Before that, he was head of institutional investors at the World Economic Forum for more than five years.

Prior to the World Economic Forum, Yik was senior institutional portfolio strategist and head of institutional thought leadership atBank of America Merrill Lynch for seven years, and before that was a senior consultant at Mercer for two years. He earned a B.S. in applied mathematics from Yale University.